mss0653.xmlFinding aid for Shaun D. Mullen journalism papers1964-2012(bulk dates 1993-2011)University of Delaware Library, Special
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6531.6 linear feet(3 boxes and oversize)The Shaun D. Mullen journalism papers is a personally selected collection of articles, editorials, and features from the author's writing career, primarily at the Philadelphia Daily News. In addition to some personal miscellany ranging from press passes to a t-shirt and political buttons, the collection also includes selected blog entries from Mullen's weblog, Kiko's House. Mullen's features and editorials included "The Six Hundred and Thirty: Stories of Philadelphia's Vietnam War Dead," the nationally syndicated "Simpson File" from columns about the O.J. Simpson trial, a year-long column written under the pen name of Millennium Man, and the issue of terrorism after the events of 9/11/2001.Materials entirely in
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Gift of Shaun D. Mullen, 2012.

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Newspaper journalist and blogger Shaun D. Mullen was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on March 14, 1947. His 20-year career at the Philadelphia

Daily News (1981-2001) included work as night city editor and special projects editor, with numerous investigative reporting assignments, features, and special columns. He created a weblog, Kiko's House, in 2005.

Shaun D. Mullen was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on March 14, 1947. He was graduated from John Dickinson High School and pursued lifelong interests in journalism and writing, which had been cemented during a summer institute at the Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois. Mullen attended the University of Delaware, where he served as editor-in-chief of the school paper,

The Review, during the socially, politically, and culturally momentous years of 1967-1969.
He went to work for the Wilmington (Delaware) News Journal after leaving the University but he was drafted into the Army in August 1969. Mullen eventually was stationed in Tokyo, Japan, where he worked for Pacific Stars & Stripes. After his Army discharge and a freelance career in the Far East, Mullen returned to the News Journal in 1973 as deputy city editor.

Mullen was hired as night city editor of the Philadelphia

Daily News in 1981 and in the course of his 20-year career there also worked as special projects editor on investigative projects. He also worked as an editorial writer and as a reporter who covered, among other stories, the O.J. Simpson murders, criminal and civil trials, and the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. In 1987, Mullen supervised "The Six Hundred and Thirty," a special Daily News section with biographies of the 630 Philadelphians (all men) who died or went missing in Vietnam. (The number of identified dead and missing has since increased.) The 630 stories were collected in time for the city's dedication of a Vietnam War Memorial at Penn's Landing in 1987. From January 2000-2001, Mullen wrote a five-day-a-week column--from the perspective of a 120-year-old "lost soul"--under the pen name of Millennium Man, in which he recounted historic 20th-century events in Philadelphia, the U.S., and abroad.

Mullen took up blogging in 2005. He blogs at Kiko's House and The Moderate Voice. He has edited several books and is the author of

The Bottom of the Fox: A True Story of Love, Devotion & Cold-Blooded Murder, a non-fiction account of an unsolved murder published in 2010; Brothers at Arms, an oral history of identical twin Korean War veterans published in 2012, and There's a House in the Land, a tale of the 1970s to be published in 2012.

The Shaun D. Mullen journalism papers is a personally selected collection of articles, editorials, and features from the author's writing career, primarily at the Philadelphia

Daily News. In addition to some personal miscellany ranging from press passes to a t-shirt and political buttons, the collection also includes selected blog entries from Mullen's weblog, Kiko's House. Mullen's features and editorials included "The Six Hundred and Thirty: Stories of Philadelphia's Vietnam War Dead," the nationally syndicated "Simpson File" from columns about the O.J. Simpson trial, a year-long column written under the pen name of Millennium Man, and the issue of terrorism after the events of 9/11/2001.

The Mullen papers is organized in several small groups of material, as selected and organized by the author: biographical overview and photographs; selected

Daily News stories with Mullen byline, editorials by Mullen, investigative reports edited by Mullen, special sections edited or written by Mullen, articles on the O.J. Simpson case, The Six Hundred and Thirty, and Millennium Man. "Best of" blog entries, 2008-2011, from Kiko's House are followed by two folders of blog topics that received wide following: "Bush torture regime" and "golden retriever cancer epidemic" posts. Personal miscellany includes press passes, buttons, an original caricature of Mullen drawn by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson, and a 10-card pack of Torture Team trading cards created to raise awareness of torture tactics and treatment of terrorist suspects , 2009. The collection also includes several newspaper issues of special significance to the author.

Detailed descriptions of the collection contents were provided by the author.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged topically/chronologically by nature of the collection content.

The Review, 1967-1968 and 1968-1969, edited by Shaun D. Mullen are available with imprints in Special Collections.
Detailed Contents List1F1Biography and photographs
1964-2012

Biographical note prepared by Shaun D. Mullen, 2012. In addition to portraits, photographs include Mullen with 1964 class of the Summer Journalism Institute, Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, Illinois; with Review editors, 1968; interviewing Eugene McCarthy at UD student center, 1968; on the scene of a fatal rail track crash in Newark, 1972; at Philadelphia Daily News, 1996; and with Deborah Jan Olson, Bob Dorough, Rick Chamberlain at the Delaware Water Gap Festival of the Arts, 2010.

1F2Selected Philadelphia Daily News stories with Mullen byline
1993-19951F2Vietnam: Is It Time for U.S. to Bury the Past?
1993 January 271F2Videotape Trial to be a Rerun, Rodney King trial
1993 February 11F2Clinton Plan a Shift from Reagan, President Clinton's first budget
1993 February 191F2Mandela Likely to Take Helm
1993 March 81F2America's Misguided War on Drugs
1993 May 51F2Pride & Prejudice, architecture review of new Philadelphia Convention Center
1993 June 241F2Take in a Shower Tonight, preview of meteor shower
1993 August 111F2Curing the System, overview of Clinton health-care reform plan
1993 September 201F2Mandela's South Africa Starts Anew
1994 May 111F2Camelot Mourns: Jackie Kennedy Onassis Is Dead
1994 May 201F2When We Hit the Beach, It Turned 20th Century Tide, 50th anniversary of D-Day
1994 May 311F2Vietnam War Still Haunts Us
1994 June 131F2He Makes an Apology That's Not Acceptable, book review
1995 April 281F3Selected Philadelphia Daily News editorials written by Mullen
19951F3In Pa. and U.S., Democrats Founder
1995 June 71F3Viet War's Over -- Time to Move On
1995 June 191F3U.S.-Japan Pact Opens Door a Crack
1995 June 301F3City's AIDS Fight Needs Direction
1995 July 101F3U.S. (Minus Hillary) Should Attend
1995 August 251F3DA 'Good Faith' No Alibi In Scandal
1995 August 301F3Too Many Profits Without Honor
1995 September 11F3Is Harrisburg Ready for New Power?
1995 November 11F3Has His Ordeal Taught O.J. Nothing?
1995 November 41F3It's Hard to Take City GOP Seriously
1995 November 91F4Selected Philadelphia Daily News investigative reports edited by Mullen
1985-19861F4Who's Watching the Doctors?
1985 February 19-221F4The Big Payoff: How the Mob and Labor Hit the Jackpot in Atlantic City
1986 February 241F4The Insider: How One Man Kept Tabs on the Mob
1986 April 211F5Selected Philadelphia Daily News special sections edited/written by Mullen
1990-19971F5Courting Chaos
1990 March 131F5Women and Children Alone: The Trials, Tragedies and Triumphs of Single Mothers Living on the Edge of Poverty
1991 February 51F5Blowin' in the Wind: 1968, The Legacy of the Year that Rocked America
1993 March 311F5High Hopes: A Special Report on the Legacy of JFK
1993 November 161F5O.J.: The Trial of the Century
1995 January 191F5The Ride of His Life -- and Ours
1995 October 41F5Pay!
1997 February 51F5Destination: Philadelphia
1997 May 61F6Selected Philadelphia Daily News articles on the O.J. Simpson case written by Mullen
1994-19951F6Race: It's Injecting Itself Day After Day
1994 November 181F6Which Network Offers the Juiciest Coverage?
1995 February 271F6A Treasure Chest for the Defense
1995 March 101F6The Line on O.J.
1995 March 201F6Battle of the Sexes
1995 March 311F6The Simpson File
19953F18Walton, Robert J. with Smith, LaGard. Trial of the Century: You Be the Juror.
1994

The Stories of Philadelphia's Vietnam War Dead. Includes run-of-press and reprint of this special section of the Philadelphia Daily News.

3F8The Six Hundred and Thirty, part 2
1987-1997Poster removed to oversize mapcase.

Includes Mullen's overview of the project, copies of the veterans' stories as published in the Philadelphia Daily News, a poster, and a program from the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial 5th anniversary re-dedication ceremonies, 1992.

3F9Millennium Man
2000-2001

Includes Mullen's overview of the series, "family tree," notebook of columns, and t-shirt. The Millennium Man ran in the Philadelphia Daily News from January 2000-January 2001.